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Yes, Once Again, Obama Does Not (And Did Not) Represent Change

  Obamney 2012 It’s almost getting boring, as we’ve pointed this out a lot (see here, here, here and here), but Barack Obama did not represent some magical, semi-omnipotent change. Maybe he diverts a...

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Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams on the Minimum Wage

Two legends discuss the problems behind the minimum wage, another good intention (well maybe) with unintended consequences (well, maybe again). Another great video from LibertyPen’s YouTube channel:...

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Paul Ryan is Fiscally Conservative?

So Paul Ryan is Mitt Romney’s choice for the “Guy Who Won’t Actually Do Anything but Will Hopefully Win Me Some Swing Voters In A Close State” known formally as the vice president. This has upset many...

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France Has A Lot of 49 Employee Companies

Back sometime ago I noted a publication by the U.S. Small Business Association which stated that annual cost of regulation in the United States was a whopping $1.75 trillion dollars! Even to me that...

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John Stossel Sums Up Corporate Welfare

It is, in one word: bad. Another great video from LibertyPen: _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ For more Swift Economics, subscribe...

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Media Matters Criticizes Me (sort of) and Unknowingly Makes a Major...

So Media Matters, a truly unbiased organization if there ever was one, ran an article criticizing conservatives for denying the alleged wage gap between men and women. The article particularly...

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Creepy Democratic National Convention Video: “The Government is the Only...

…The government is your friend, like your government, it’s here to help you, we all belong to it, it owns us, but is friendly so don’t worry. I always find it funny when Democrats make fun of...

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Presidential Debate from a European Perspective

The letter from the German authorities caught my attention. Mostly because it was asking for a bunch of money, but also because of what was going on back home in the U.S. The letter was to inform me...

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My Thoughts on the Presidential Election or How Barack Obama and Mitt Romney...

I must be the most ill-informed political blogger there is out there right now, at least when it comes to current events. Oh how things change… where I once had my finger on the pulse of the political...

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Effects of QE3 in the Housing Market

In yet another attempt at jump starting the economy, the Federal Reserve’s latest major stimulus action, known as QE3, is likely to have less effect on the housing market than Fed Chairman Ben Bernake...

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Yes, Liberals are “Anti-Science” Too

So Michael Shermer made a bit of a splash earlier this year when he wrote there was a “liberal war on science” in addition to—not instead of—a conservative war on science. As he says: The left’s war...

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Republicans use Political Correctness Too

In my series of “mommy he did it too” articles, I now turn to the dreaded political correctness. Political correctness apparently came to us from the Frankfurt School and critical theory which, as...

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Musicnomics Part II: Decline and Fall

So a while back I wrote an article about the wacky world of music where talent is ignored in favor of prepackaged, overproduced tweenie heart throbs and beauty queens who have little discernible...

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Are Liberals Really Pro-Choice?

So this is a slightly older piece from ReasonTV that took place during the Democratic National Convention, but it is absolutely hilarious. It seems that liberals have a bit of a bad habit of saying...

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Glenn Greenwald Slaps Down More NSA/Edward Snowden Nonsense

David Gregory asks Glenn Greenwald the idiotic question of whether he should be charged with a crime for basically being an investigative journalist. Greenwald also explains why, although it’s true...

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Wealth Inequality in America: A Partial Critique

So I’m a little late on this one, but there is a viral video on wealth inequality in the United States going around that compares what a survey of 5000 Americans said they thought wealth inequality...

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John Stossel Rundown

Here are some of my favorite, mostly recent, discussions on some very relevant topics by the man with mustache himself:   John Stossel with Chuck Devore and Matt Welch comparing why Texas’s smaller...

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Liberalism is Kinda Boring

Liberalism has been called a lot of things. Some seem to think that the term is synonymous with good, others think it’s naive, Michael Savage called it a mental disorder, etc. But the one thing I...

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